Client presentation saved by an intern after the employee in charge unexpectedly calls in sick, company rewards intern: ‘A quiet acknowledgment through my bank account’

When you’re an intern, your main objective from your internship is to gain experience and make connections that would help you find a real job in the future. Everyone knows that being an intern is not about the money, it’s about the work, and even though many workplaces have no problem putting their interns to …
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Discriminatory elementary school awards kids for 100% attendance with ice cream van, forces the rest of the class to go without on a hot summer’s day: ‘They spend more time working out how to punish kids than teach them’

Attendance can be a flawed metric by which to judge how well a student does in school. There are a million different reasons that a child is not responsible for that could affect how many days they are able to show up. While it’s true that they usually do better when they spend more of …
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‘I spent 40 dollars ordering from a cookie store’: Entitled 5th grader continually disrupts teacher’s class, faces petty end of year revenge

How do you deal with a singular problem student? It’s a conundrum that has stressed out many hardworking teacher. It can sometimes seem like you can’t put a foot right: come down too hard on them and you risk making them even less willing to learn, but being too lenient can also have the same …
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